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January 8, 2011
'No doubt acts of intolerance against Muslims can be found, and they should be condemned .. but note that Muslims aren't fleeing America in fear of their lives like Christians are having to do in Islamic nations'
A common sense perspective on the nonsense of "Islamophobia" propaganda from Muslims and their complicit apologists of the Left, by Steve Huntley in the Chicago Sun-Times, via Robert Spencer: "Anti-Christian crimes downplayed":
We've heard outlandish allegations of Islamophobia sweeping America. Not getting nearly as much attention is the bloody persecution of Christians in parts of the Muslim world.Read more ...Every report of an Islamist terrorist plot is accompanied by a chorus of warnings against Americans hating or attacking Muslim Americans. Yet, that much-ballyhooed bigotry almost never seems to arise. The latest FBI hate crime statistics, for 2009, found that 8.4 percent of the 1,575 victims of anti-religious crimes were attacked because of anti-Islamic bias. In contrast, 71.9 percent of the victims were Jews.
No doubt acts of intolerance against Muslims can be found, and they should be condemned. But Muslims aren't fleeing America in fear of their lives like Christians are leaving some Islamic nations.
Open Doors, an organization supporting persecuted Christian churches, asserts 100 million Christians worldwide are targeted for their faith. It found that eight of the top 10 countries that are the most dangerous for Christians to practice their religion are nations with Islamic majorities, including Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Yemen. Topping the list was communist North Korea.
New on this year's Open Doors list is Iraq, to the shame of that nation's new leadership and of its biggest backer, the United States. More than half of Iraq's Christian population, numbering 800,000 to 1.4 million before the 2003 U.S. invasion, have fled the country, according to the New York Times ...
[...] Can anyone imagine the Catholic College of Cardinals justifying murder of non-Christians? Islamist terrorism is more than a bunch of thugs killing people. It's enabled by radical theology from influential clerics, authoritarian governments using hate of "the other" to manipulate restive populations, and too much silence, or worse, acquiescence in the Muslim world.
Readers should also take the time to read Brent Bozell's excellent piece on this topic: "War in the Mideast--On Christians".
Cross posted from Hyscience
Posted by Richard at January 8, 2011 10:31 AM
